NASA SELECTS PHASE II SMALL BUSINESS PROJECTS

NASA, 20050229 by Charles Redmond

NASA announced today the selection of 130 research proposals for negotiation of Phase II contract awards in NASA's Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR).

SBIR goals are to stimulate technological innovation, increase the use of small business (including minority and disadvantaged firms) in meeting federal research and development needs and increase private sector commercialization of results of federally funded research.

Phase I project objectives are to determine feasibility of research innovations meeting agency needs. Phase II continues development of the most promising Phase I projects. Selection criteria include technical merit and innovation, Phase I results, value to NASA, commercial potential and company capabilities. Funding for Phase II contracts may be up to $500,000 for a 2-year performance period.

The selected Phase II projects, which have a total value of approximately $65 million, will be conducted by 108 small, high-technology firms located in 22 states. About 40 additional Phase II selections will be made in January 1994.

A total of 327 proposals were submitted by SBIR contractors completing Phase I projects that were initiated in 1992. When the selection process is completed, the total value of the contracts will approach $85 million.

The SBIR program is managed by NASA's Office of Advanced Concepts and Technology, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., and all individual SBIR projects are managed by nine NASA field centers.

A listing of companies selected for this program is available at NASA Headquarters (Phone: 202/358-1600) and all NASA field centers.

- end- December 15, 1993 National Aeronautics and Space Administration Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program 92-1 Phase II Proposals Selected for Negotiation of SBIR Phase II Contracts

Sorted by Company and Proposal Number ============================================================

Adaptive Research Corporation 4960 Corporate Drive, Suite 100A Huntsville, AL 35805 Lawrence W. Spradley 205-830-2620 92-1-03.07-2620 (LaRC) Graphical User Interface for Design of Hypersonic Vehicles

Adroit Systems, Inc. 209 Madison Street Suite 500 Alexandria, VA 22314 Michael Syracuse 703-684-2900 92-1-03.07-2900 (LaRC) A Novel Hydrogen Fueled Propulsion System

Advanced Applications Corporation 416 Hangerford Drive, Suite 200C Rockville, MD 20850 Yealing H. Hu 301-340-6022 92-1-07.06-7978 (GSFC) The Netbook System

Advanced Modular Power Systems, Inc. 4667 Freedom Drive Ann Arbor, MI 48108 Thomas K. Hunt 313-677-4260 92-1-15.04-4260 (HQ ) Automated Wafer Cartridge System (AWCS)

Advanced Optical Technologies, Inc. 628 Hebron Ave, Corporate Center Bldg 2 Glastonbury, CT 06033 Feng Liu 203-429-8492 92-1-12.01-8492 (JSC ) Compact Digital Flash X-Ray Imager for Quantitative Phyiological Studies in Space Vehicles

Advanced Technology, Inc. 47341 Batside Parkway Fremont, CA 94538 Andrew Intrater 510-249-1144 92-1-04.25-3230 (GSFC) Thick-Film Metallization for High Temperature Graphite Furnaces

Alabama Research 555 Sparkman Drive Suite 818 Huntsville, AL 35816 Lawrence W. Spradley 205-721-1769 92-1-11.07-2246 (MSFC) Grid Optimization Tools for Complex Structural Models

Alvin Lowi & Associates 2146 Toscanini Drive San Pedro, CA 90732 Alvin Lowi, Jr 310-548-8457 92-1-03.08-8457 (ARC ) Facultative Hypergolic-Ignition Internal Combustion Engine

American Minority Engineering Corporatio 10422 Armory Avenue Kensington, MD 20895 James Lee 301-770-2978 92-1-06.02-8817 (GSFC) Methodology and Mapping Between Problem Requirements and Solution Scheduling Approaches in Mission Planning Expert Scheduling Systems

American Research Corp. of Virginia P.O. Box 3406 Radford, VA 24143-3406 Anne Churchill 703-731-0655 92-1-04.25-0655 (GSFC) Laser Brazing Process for Joining Refractory Materials to Dissimilar Metals

Amtec Engineering, Inc. P.O. Box 3633 Bellevue, WA 98009-3633 Donald W. Roberts 206-827-3304 92-1-02.04-3304 (ARC ) A Hybrid Structured-Unstructured Grid Implicit Algorithm for Geometrically Complex Flowfields

Analysis & Measurement Services Corporat 9111 Cross Park Drive NW Knoxville, TN 37923-4599 Kent M. Petersen 615-691-1756 92-1-11.04-1756 (MSFC) New Instrumnet Technologies for Testing the Performance of Solid Rocket Motor Nozzles

Analytical Services & Materials, Inc. 107 Research Drive Hampton, VA 23666 Jalaiah Unnam 804-865-7093 92-1-02.07-7093 (LaRC) A High Sensitivity, Large Bandwidth Constant Voltage Anemometer for Speed Transition Research

Applied Mathematical Physics Research P.O. Box 383 Lexington, MA 02173 Shirley Enguehard 617-862-6357 92-1-08.16-6357 (MSFC) Implementation of an Exact Analytic Solution to Segmented Adaptive Optics Control

Applied Research Associates 4300 San Mateo Boulevard NE Suite A220 Albuquerque, NM 87110 Lawrence A. Twisdale Jr. 505-881-8074 92-1-04.03-0018 (LeRC) Portable Parallel Stochastic Optimization for the Design of Aeropropulsion Components